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486@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Perhaps the hard dependency was a mistake, but not them moving more and more code to their proprietary library. It appears that their intent is to make the client mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library, so they can still claim to have an open source GPLv3 piece of software.

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nadir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Instead of open core I’ll call this popular approach “open skin”.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library

I’m not familiar with exactly what Bitwarden are doing, but Nvidia are doing something similar to what you described with their Linux GPU drivers. They launched new open-source drivers for Turing (GTX 16 and RTX 20 series) and newer GPUs. What they’re actually doing is moving more and more functionality to the closed-source firmware. Maybe that’s okay? I’m not sure how I feel about it.

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